Movie Monday - Why Him?
8 years ago
I found it very interesting that on ABC FAMILY channel, a channel that promotes how family friendly it is and how it's every age appropriate, during a commercial for the movie "The Notebook" my delicate little ears heard a harsh word whose initials are "g" and "d" - the words, uncensored and plain as day. Yet on MTV, a channel that is not known for it's appropriateness or it's moral convictions, on a show recapping the TV series "The Hills", this guy doing commentary censored himself by saying "A-hole" - just the letter "a" and the word "hole". HOWEVER, the censors at MTV found it necessary to bleep out the word "hole".
My question: Why is it necessary to keep my delicate ears from hearing the word "hole"? When did "hole" become a dirty word? And more important, when did "g-d" become a family friendly word appropriate for all ages?
I can't be the only person concerned with this.
Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother's way. 15If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother for whom Christ died. 16Do not allow what you consider good to be spoken of as evil. 19Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. 20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. 21It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother to fall. 22So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God.
Some people have a problem with it and some people don't. I'm one of those people that don't, but my friend is one that does. At the time, I didn't know that. I thought she didn't really have an opinion on the matter, so I partook in this debatable activity in the presence of this friend. I could tell something wasn't right. As the night went on, the more distant and quiet she became. I asked another friend what was wrong and she just said that I offended her by a remark I made about her boyfriend. I believed that and just thought I'd wait until the whole thing blew over to talk to her about it. When I got home, I read this passage. I realized that some people don't agree with me on this issue and that that's okay, but that I should not become a stumbling block for them. I had no idea until this morning that my aforementioned friend was very disappointed in my actions the night before and was very distressed that I had done this in front of her. I've decided that this isn't worth hurting my friend or losing her respect. I'm not going to be a stumbling block to her, whether I think it's a permissible action or not. Everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial.
P.S. Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2 is my new favorite!
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